Peppermill

Here is a peppermill I made for my wife. (I finally made something for her instead of a present for someone else in the family.) The second picture shows one of the two blanks I got from my glue-up, and the first peppermill I turned. Thin sections of maple. walnut, jatoba, and purpleheart were glued together flat, then cut into two turning pieces. To make the stripes angled on each turning blank, I bandsaw-cut each piece on the diagonal, pieces were flipped and glued to each other, and then the resulting angled ends were trimmed square.

With four different woods, the bores were a little tricky to keep straight. The first peppermill drilled pretty well, the second one was a challenge, and I had to make progress in tiny steps.

i am assuming that the grinder is a crush grind click in. am i right??? very nice work. when i do that style of wood blank, i just glue up the wood, cut at a 30 degree angle, reglue , then square the ends off.

I saw the cutter, but I hate to spend $45 for such a specialized tool. (Yes, I am a cheapskate …)

I bought a cheap set up Harbor Freight tools that I have used to try my hand at regrinding into specialized tools. I think I’ll take the narrow skew and regrind to try to make my own cutter for the CrushGrind mechanism. I did make a narrow parting tool out of one, and so far, so good. I’ll definitely post as a project if it works well.